chartjs / chartjs/chartjs-plugin-datalabels
Handling overlapping labels
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Description
Hello! I'm using this plugin to show data labels on a scatter graph.
Here is a fully working example on Codepen: https://codepen.io/LondonAppDev/pen/oNyReVr
I want to implement a "bring to the front" effect of labels when you hover over them. So all labels are visible and overlap, but when I hover over a point/label it is brought to the foreground.
After reading the docs, I see that the order is determined using the `dataIndex` and then `datasetIndex`, so I tried to implement it by adding the following to `options.plugins.datalabels.labels.value`:
```javascript
listeners: {
enter: function(context) {
context.dataIndex = 999;
context.datasetIndex = 999;
return true;
},
leave: function(context) {
context.dataIndex = 0;
context.datasetIndex = 0;
return true;
}
}
```
This unfortunately doesn't work, it just seems to crash when I hover.
Does anyone know if this is possible to achieve?
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